2Ki 10:15, Jer 35:2-8, 19 | TSK | STEP | lighted on. Heb. found. Jehonadab. Jonadab. Rechab. saluted. Heb. blessed. Is thine heart right. give me. he took him.Jehu asked for the hand of Jehonadab not merely for the purpose of assisting him into the chariot, but that he might give him an assurance that he would assist him in the prosecution of his desires; for giving the hand is considered as a pledge of friendship and fidelity, or a form of entering into a contract, among all nations. Mr. Bruce relates, that when he entreated the protection of a {sheikh,} the great people who were assembled came, "and after joining hands, repeated a kind of prayer, of about two minutes long; by which they declared themselves and their children accursed, if ever they lifted their hands against me in the {tell,} (or field) in the desert, or on the river; or, in case that I, or mine, should fly to them for refuge, if they did not protect us at the risk of their lives, their families, and their fortunes, or, as they emphatically expressed it, to the death of the last male child among them." Another striking instance occurs in Ockley's History of the Saracens. Telha, just before he died, asked one of Ali's men if he belonged to the emperor of the faithful; and being informed that he did, "Give me then," said he, "your hand, that I may put mine in it, and by this action renew the oath of fidelity which I have already made to Ali."

2 Kings 10:15

lighted on. Heb. found.

13; 9:21; *margins

Jehonadab.

Jer 35:6,8,14-19

Jonadab. Rechab.

1Ch 2:55

saluted. Heb. blessed.

Ge 31:55; 47:7,10

Is thine heart right.

1Ch 12:17,18; Joh 21:15-17; Ga 4:12

give me.

Ezr 10:19; Eze 17:18; Ga 2:9

he took him.Jehu asked for the hand of Jehonadab not merely for the purpose of assisting him into the chariot, but that he might give him an assurance that he would assist him in the prosecution of his desires; for giving the hand is considered as a pledge of friendship and fidelity, or a form of entering into a contract, among all nations. Mr. Bruce relates, that when he entreated the protection of a {sheikh,} the great people who were assembled came, "and after joining hands, repeated a kind of prayer, of about two minutes long; by which they declared themselves and their children accursed, if ever they lifted their hands against me in the {tell,} (or field) in the desert, or on the river; or, in case that I, or mine, should fly to them for refuge, if they did not protect us at the risk of their lives, their families, and their fortunes, or, as they emphatically expressed it, to the death of the last male child among them." Another striking instance occurs in Ockley's History of the Saracens. Telha, just before he died, asked one of Ali's men if he belonged to the emperor of the faithful; and being informed that he did, "Give me then," said he, "your hand, that I may put mine in it, and by this action renew the oath of fidelity which I have already made to Ali."

Ac 8:31

Jeremiah 35:2-8

the house.

8; 2Ki 10:15,16; 1Ch 2:55

into one.

4; 1Ki 6:5,6,10; 1Ch 9:26; 23:28; 2Ch 3:9; 31:11; Ezr 8:29

Ne 13:5,8,9; Eze 40:7-13,16; 41:5-11; 42:4-13

into the chamber.

36:10-12

a man.

De 33:1; Jos 14:6; 1Sa 2:27; 9:6-8; 1Ki 12:22; 13:1,26; 17:18,24

1Ki 20:28; 2Ki 1:9,11-13; 5:14,20; 6:10; 7:2,17; 8:2-8; 23:16,17

2Ch 8:14; 25:7-9; 1Ti 6:11; 2Ti 3:17

the princes.

26:10

the keeper.

52:24; 2Ki 12:9; 25:18; 1Ch 9:18,19,27; 2Ch 8:14; Ps 84:10

door. Heb. threshold, or vessel.

Eze 43:8

Drink.

2; Ec 9:7; Am 2:12; 2Co 2:9

Jonadab.

2Ki 10:15; 1Ch 2:55

Ye shall.Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God, and who lived about three hundred years before this time, (2 Ki 10:15, 16, etc.) had probably practised these rules himself; and having trained up his children to habits of abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere to them. In these regulations he seems to have had no religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." And this would be the natural consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode of living would very much contribute to preserve health and prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they would have been deprived of the religious advantages they enjoyed. In 1 Ch 2:55, they are termed scribes, which intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary employments.

Le 10:9; Nu 6:2-5; Jud 13:7,14; Lu 1:15; 1Co 7:26-31

all.

10; Ge 25:27; Le 23:42,43; Ne 8:14-16; Heb 11:9-13; 1Pe 2:11

that ye.

Ge 36:7; Ex 20:12; 1Ch 16:19; Ps 105:12; Eph 6:2,3

all.

10; Ge 25:27; Le 23:42,43; Ne 8:14-16; Eph 5:18; Heb 11:9-13

1Pe 2:11

Pr 1:8,9; 4:1,2,10; 6:20; 13:1; Col 3:20

Jeremiah 35:19

Jonadab, etc. Heb. There shall not a man be cut off fromJonadab the son of Rechab to stand, etc.

33:17; 1Ch 2:55

stand.

15:19; 33:17,18; Ps 5:5; Lu 21:36; Jude 1:24